Une vision ambitieuse pour la Grande Europe

In this splendid article, Jacques Delors starts by reminding us of the three ultimate goals he attributes to “Greater Europe”:
– to be an area of “active peace” where the spirit of mutual understanding among peoples will prevail;
– to maintain a framework for sustainable development, i.e. an economic and social union based on competition that is stimulating, cooperation that strengthens, and solidarity that unites;
– to bring out the best from our spiritual and cultural diversity (not hiding the past, combating crime, reviving European humanism).
We need a plan for Europe that is workable, which means overcoming the problems of numbers and renewing the “community approach”.
We need a plan that sets an example: Europe must be ready to cooperate with the countries of the South, open to migration flows, and inventive -a “laboratory for globalisation” that discovers how to reconcile “the requirements of economic profitability in the short run with an awareness of the future”.